donderdag 30 oktober 2008

Dutch street poet and guerrilla artist Laser 3.14's latest project "The Gospel According to Brian O'Blivion" will have a short run from November 8th to the 13th at The Chiellerie in Amsterdam.

Constructed as the artist's vision on "the interrelatedness between humanity and omnipotence of technology," the show will combine his subversive political and philosophical texts and art with the audio constructions of local ambient composer Pieter Nooten, who designed his audio art specifically for the exhibition and will be familiar to fans of the venerable 4AD record label, which released the "fragile songs and dreamlike soundscapes" of Sleeps With The Fishes, a collaborative album with Michael Brook, a decade ago.

Curated by the "anthropologists in art" team of Blaton & Rypson, the program examines the cyclical, often deconstructing symbiosis between mankind and the technologies it creates. "Already, our cosmology of truths has been supplanted by an amorphous and infinite number of hyper-realities and truisms," Laser 3.14 muses. "What of our organic autonomy? Will we transmorph into neo-anthropomorphic techno-beings?"

The exhibition is the latest in a series of public works by the artist, who recently completed the ominous black and white short film Cadence, and was the subject of a 2006 LAS feature. "The Gospel According to Brian O'Blivion" opens on Sunday, November8th, at 5pm and will be available for viewing four afternoon hours daily.

The papers say they’re considering dropping the bombIt’s ominous prospect to the old and the youngHow did this come to pass?How did this come to be?Orville has lilacsIf we really saw themwe could’ve been set free

vrijdag 24 oktober 2008

October 18, 2008

Our big Zaishu painting day was a brilliant success and we produced some awesome artwork. It was great to see the collaborative spirit and sharing of techniques and work practices between the artists. Everyone was buzzed by the inspirinig energy and sensational creations that were produced!

The enigmatic guerrilla-poet and visual artist Laser 3.14 will unleash his vision on the interrelatedness between humanity and omnipotence of technology. In a reality where mankind is driven to self-consuming meta-consumption by the very technologies he has created, how far can and will our symbiotic relationship with the digital and the cathode-ray tube go? Already, our cosmology of truths has been supplanted by an amorphous and infinite number of hyper-realities and truisms. What of our organic autonomy? Will we transmorph, as Laser suggests, into neo-anthropomorphic techno-beings…?

Next to the works of Laser 3.14, the exhibition will be completed with soundscapes by Pieter Nooten which he specially composed for this exhibition.

The enigmatic guerrilla-poet and visual artist Laser 3.14 will unleash his vision on the interrelatedness between humanity and omnipotence of technology. In a reality where mankind is driven to self-consuming meta-consumption by the very technologies he has created, how far can and will our symbiotic relationship with the digital and the cathode-ray tube go? Already, our cosmology of truths has been supplanted by an amorphous and infinite number of hyper-realities and truisms. What of our organic autonomy? Will we transmorph, as Laser suggests, into neo-anthropomorphic techno-beings…?

Besides the works of Laser 3.14, the exhibition will be completed with soundscapes by Pieter Nooten which he specially composed for this exhibition.

zondag 12 oktober 2008

zaterdag 11 oktober 2008

The International Amsterdam Film Festival kicks off on Thursday October 16 with the world premiere of THE URBAN COOKBOOK, a short documentary full of raw poetics linked to music and street-art by British filmmaker and writer King Adz.

Presented in collaboration with Thames & Hudson and the American Book Center with a street food party in De Balie, where King Adz himself will be cooking urban recipes he collected in New York, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris and London. With artists Hush, Brad Downey, and Laser 3.14

zondag 5 oktober 2008

Let’s invade under a white flagLet’s turn white into blackLet’s shatter their bones with stonesLet’s be the fangs the mouth of a fiendLet’s lie to the universal beingLet’s deprive the good from lightLet’s force the weak into a fightLet hate be called loveLet’s imprison the white doveLet’s make ingenuity feel like it’s notLet’s halt freedom to a stopLet’s steal from the begging bowlLet’s listen to a nuclear winter’s howl

A child isn’t born with a gun in its handSo how can peace be so violent friend?

vrijdag 3 oktober 2008

The American Book Center is pleased to invite you to the opening reception for the exhibition"ABC Gives: Building a Room to Read"

5 October 2008

The American Book Center has invited artists from a wide variety of mediumsto work on the theme of the charity "Room to Read", which builds librariesand schools in developing nations, and offers scholarships to girls whomight not otherwise be able to finish their education. A percentage of allsales will go to support Room to Read (www.roomtoread.org).

"ABC Gives: Building a Room to Read" is at the ABC Treehouse 3-26 October,and is open for public viewing Thursdays-Sundays, 1-6pm

Become a Story Person - Art Workshop for young people5 October, 2PM

"My favorite thing is the wind she said & my second favorite is chocolatebut I just do that so I don't get too skinny & blow away." - StoryPeople

In this drawing workshop, we'll use StoryPeople (www.storypeople.com) asinspiration to help young people (aged 8-16) create works of art based ontheir very own 'favorite' things. The workshop will be taught by Nick Walker& Stephanie Rodriquez. And while your child is being creative, you can enjoya relaxed preview of the exhibition!

Nick Walker has taught drawing at The Art Academy of Utrecht and TheInternational School of Amsterdam, as well as at festivals such as theVisual Arts Festival in Leiden and the International School TheatreFestival. The children he has taught Art to range in age from 8 to 18.Stephanie Rodriguez has worked several years with kids with the objective tolet them discover new ways to look at the world and themselves. She has beenworking with them mainly in the fields of dance and theater.